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Default Breaking a string of letters

One way is to change all the ( to a , using fine & replace, then use text to
colums using ) and , as the delimiters and skip the columns you dont want.
You should have 117 90 & 4 in seperate columns

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"Confused" wrote:

How do I break this string of letters without having to manually enter this
into three columns? L(117),D(90),O(4)

The end result should be in three separate columns (117, 90, 4).

 
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